Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
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
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis