Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
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
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging