Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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