Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis