Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow