Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous