Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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Anonymous
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis