Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis