Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke