Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud