Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
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.
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