Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
[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