Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod