Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray