Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous