Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein