Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous