Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks