Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
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
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous