Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents