Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein