Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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MSDN
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely