Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis