Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis