Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein