Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous