Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis