Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney