Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon