Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis