Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous