Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
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
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous