Hacker Says

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

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Alan J. Perlis

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Keith Bostic

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

Gavin Russell Baker

Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.

Douglas Crockford

Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.

Anonymous

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

Alan J. Perlis

It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.

Dennis Ritchie

Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.

Anonymous

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Alan J. Perlis