Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis