Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"