Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen