Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson