Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis