Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely