Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis