Hacker Says

Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.

Anonymous

No code is faster than no code.

Anonymous

Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Anonymous

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

Alan J. Perlis

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth

In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.

Stroustrup

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

Larry Wall

In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.

From SICP

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Dennie van Tassel

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso