Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong