Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis