Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
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
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous