Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous