Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall