Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers