Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis