Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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