Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra