Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis