Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
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
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis