Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard