Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates