Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh