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
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas