Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.