Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
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
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous