Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis