Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
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