Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis