Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis