Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous