Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous