Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood