Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law