Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
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Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks