Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous