Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale