Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous