Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis