Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center