Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis