Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski