Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis