Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich