Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis