Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra