Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous