Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein