Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis