Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne