Programmers

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
- Linus Torvalds

A funny quote

“Life is a disease – sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
- Neil Gaiman

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“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.”
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain

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“It’s also good that a system doesn’t settle down with a sort of elite who created it and that new ideas and younger people are always stepping into the project. I want to be sure that when I’m an old fart there are plenty of people in the community with both the knowledge and the [...]

I hate politicians…

“Politicians make all wars, but very few of them ever die in one.”
“A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
- H L Mencken
“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is [...]

On Geniuses…

“There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it.”
- Hans Bethe, Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
A very, very inspiring quote! [...]