Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis