Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis