Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous