Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis