Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
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
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous