Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
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Anonymous
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis