Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks