Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous