Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl