Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis