Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick