Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;