Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis