Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis