Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra