Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis