Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams