Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous