Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis