Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis