Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous