Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks