Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
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