Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.