Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
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
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall