Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis