Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso