Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
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
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous