Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous