Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson