Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond