Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey