Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken