Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra