Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce