Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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