Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
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
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis