Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous