Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development