Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham