Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous