Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis