Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous