Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous