Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis