Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis