Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis