Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
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Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous