Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets