Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling