Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis