Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca