Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer