Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup