Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth