Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott