Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
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
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen