Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov