Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski