Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous