Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto