Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
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
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous