Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous