Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous