Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
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
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous