Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous