Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis