Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham