Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
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
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis