Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous