Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
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
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous