Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin