Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous