Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher