Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous