Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth