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
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
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
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski