Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay