Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis