Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis