Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman