Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks