Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous