Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
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
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation