Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
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