Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries