Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware