Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis