Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
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
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis