Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray