Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler