Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis