Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg