Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis