Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
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
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich