Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis