Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
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