Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie