Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
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++;
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous