Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous