Reading one book (The Tao of Programming) would be sufficient (but not necessary) to be familiar with a lot of quotes similar to this one. Excerpts from that bo

Reading one book (The Tao of Programming) would be sufficient (but not necessary) to be familiar with a lot of quotes similar to this one. Excerpts from that book are posted pretty often. I think that I probably ran into Tao of Programming around the time that I found The Jargon File, and some other things connected to classic hacker culture.