Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod