Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall