Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham