Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson