Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis