Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous