Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall