Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis