Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis