Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler