Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis