Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack