Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor