Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler