Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous