Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law