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
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis