Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis