Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis