Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
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
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
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous