Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming