Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis