Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis