Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis