Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous