Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar