Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
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Anonymous
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis