Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis