Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis