Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
[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
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous