Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus