Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous