Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous