Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
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