Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud