Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra