Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson