Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis