Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law