Perlisms – “Epigrams in Programming”

[xyzwave]

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

[zwkrt]

Reminds me of the classic laws of spacecraft design

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

[hulitu]

> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

Today this would be: If you have a program with ten libraries, you probably missed some.

[chrisweekly]

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures"

Love it.

[SnoopDougDoug]

My favorite:

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.

Benjamin Brewster Yale Literary Magazine, February 1882

[aricz]

93. When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

<3

[tetris11]

`document.getElementsByTagName("center")[0].style = "text-align: left;"`

Just to save your eyes

[jiriro → tetris11]

Reader mode will do.

[tempodox]

Oldie but goldie. Most of these have held up quite well over time.