Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood