Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds