Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis