Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky