Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack