Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous