Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer