Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous