Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling