Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous