Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich