Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
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
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous