Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
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
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous