Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis