Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
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
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
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
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens