Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup