Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis