Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda