Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare