Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
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
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis