Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis