Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous