Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond