Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis