Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger