Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous