Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous