Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis