Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
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
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie