Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous