Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke