Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
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