Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis