Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
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
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis