Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous