Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
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
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis