Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis