Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis