Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;