Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
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
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis