Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis