Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen