Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
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
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous