Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis