Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis