Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
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