Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis