Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg