Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis