Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis