Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare