Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
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
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis