Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
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
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne