Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson