Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous