Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous