Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis