Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous