Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
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
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood