Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis