Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman