Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach