Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis