Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero