Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis