Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis