Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe