Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks