Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
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
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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