Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams