Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous