Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
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
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates