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
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen