Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis