Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis