Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
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
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz