Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
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
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers