Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
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
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis