Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis