Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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++;
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis