Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis