Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis