Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere