Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
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 you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis