Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous