Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous