Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis