Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous