Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis