Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
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
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar