Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
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