Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous