Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis