Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis