Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer