Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis