Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton