Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen