Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis