Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... 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
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler