Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous