Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci