Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman