Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization