Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
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
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis