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
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis