Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob