Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis