Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White