Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
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
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis