Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall