Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton