Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis