Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis