Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson