Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
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
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