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
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
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis