Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth