Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis