Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
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
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous