Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers