Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg