Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02