Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis