Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec