Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell