Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka