Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack