Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis