Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis