Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
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
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
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MSDN
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis