Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth