Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous