Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
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