Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
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
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP