Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler