Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous