Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis