Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood