Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler