Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous