Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis