Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis