Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall