Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott