Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
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