Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch