Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis