Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis