Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
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 have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup