Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis