Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh