Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis