Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis