Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
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++;
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis