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
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar