Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN