Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis