Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
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MSDN
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams