Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds