Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
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
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte