Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis