Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
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
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
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg