Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
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 someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford