Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth