Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann