Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
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