Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
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
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
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
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis