Poke Quote by Bill Joy

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time…

— Bill Joy

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

— Philip Greenspun

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

— Larry Wall

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

— Alan Perlis

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

— Tom Van Vleck

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common…

— Philip Greenspun

“And there is one disconcerting thing about working with a computer – it's likely to talk back to you. You make some tiny mistake…

— John Drury Clark

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

— Erik Naggum

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

— Steve Yegge

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can…

— Bill Gates