Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius