Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno