Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl