Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous