Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
[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
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous