Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
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.
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous