Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
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
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
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Anonymous
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous