Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
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