Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler