Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis