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
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis