Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
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
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood