Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous