Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis