Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
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
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky