Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski