Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous