Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup