Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis