Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
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
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely