Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge