Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
"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
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer