Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds