Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere