Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis