Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers