Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay