Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous