Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous