Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth