Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl