Hacker Says

When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.

Anonymous

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

Alan J. Perlis

There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.

Anonymous

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.

H. W. Kenton

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Nathaniel Borenstein

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

Alan J. Perlis

There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.

Frank Armstrong

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Michael Sinz

There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton