Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott