Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
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