Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates