Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall