Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero