Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous