Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous