Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell