Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman