Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis