Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis