Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous