Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe