Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
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