Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell