Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds