Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis