Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis