Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds