Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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