Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson