Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch