Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous