Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis