Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr