Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein