Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford