Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
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
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous