Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis