Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
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
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous