Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law