Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno