Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen