Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous