Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis