Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous