Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow