Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
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
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis