First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
- Gandhi
Los grilletes de oro son mucho peores que los de hierro.
- Gandhi
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
La naturaleza es tan sabia, que ya se fue de las ciudades.
- Jaume Perich
Las grandes inteligencias discuten las ideas, las inteligencias medias los sucesos, y las pequeñas, las personas.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Gandhi
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
- Linus Torvalds
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
The imagination of nature is far, far greater tha the imagination of man.
- Richard Feynman
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Gandhi
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you, "There's a time for work and a time for play" never find the time for play?
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
- Albert Einstein
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Goethe
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
- Mark Twain
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one, as this, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth
- Albert Einstein
(On Gandhi)
Gozar con las alegrías de los demás, y sufrir con ellos, éstas son las mejores guías para el hombre.
- Albert Einstein
El miedo o la estupidez siempre han estado en la base de casi todos los actos humanos.
- Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Miremos más que somos padres de nuestro porvenir que no hijos de nuestro pasado.
- Miguel de Unamuno
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
No todo lo que es oro brilla.
- Manu Chao
Think first, write second, speak third.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
- Alan Perlis
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Gandhi
There are men who fight one day and they are good. There are others who fight one year and they are better. There are those who fight many years and they are very good. But there are those who fight a lifetime: those are indispensable.
- Bertolt Brecht
The greatness of a man is not measured by the land covered by his feet, but by the horizon covered by his eyes.
- José Martí
Men have built too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Georges Pire
Men are mortal for their fears and immortal for their passions.
- Pythagoras
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
- Miguel de Unamuno
...and it's better, even from a purely selfish point of view, to be constrained by principles than by stupidity.
- Paul Graham
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target that others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.
- Schopenhauer
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
- Plato
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?".
- George Bernard Shaw
The meek will inherit the Earth..... The rest of us will go to the stars.
There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.
- Ayn Rand
The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
- Winston Churchill
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- John Andrew Holmes
Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is built on stone; all is built in sand. But we must build as if the sand were stone.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
- Alan Perlis
¿Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia?
- Xavier Velasco
(Diablo Guardián)
No hace falta el reloj para leer.
- Xavier Velasco
Sólo hay una cosa más grande que el amor a la libertad: el odio a quien te la quita.
- Ernesto Guevara
The revolution will not be televised.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
- Albert Einstein
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
- Voltaire
Human knowledge belongs to the world.
- Teddy Chin
(Antitrust)
Today, programming free software is just as much an intellectual quest as a political struggle. Programming is now a tool for social change.
- Marcus Brinkmann
El software es cada vez más el gran intermediario entre la información y la inteligencia humana. De la misma manera que nos preocupa la libertad para poder acceder a la información y si existe censura, nos debe preocupar con igual intensidad quién controla este intermediario y qué garantías tenemos de su transparencia y fiabilidad.
- Jordi Mas
If, over time, what triumphs is “Linux”, and not free software, then we have lost.
- Tom Chance
You know, screw them, if it's a choice between putting everyone in Hollywood out of work - not that this would do that, but if that was in fact the outcome, which the industry says it would be - and if it's a choice between that and eliminating all freedom of information, due process and privacy rights in electronic communication, then 'Goodbye Hollywood', it's a no-brainer.
- Cory Doctorow
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
- Tim O'Reilly
And one thing we do find is that anytime you're using something that's proprietary, you do wind up being pretty trapped, as much as they can trap you.
- Steve Wozniak
Geeks know that control of our communication technologies is control over what we can say, who we can say it to, and how and when we can say it. In an increasingly technologically mediated age, control over technology is not only the power to control our actions; it is the power to limit our possible actions. Our freedom to our technology is our freedom, full stop.
- Benjamin Mako Hill
Like it or not, our future and our children's future will be written (quite literally in many case) through, in, and by the software we use. We have a choice: we can do it on Microsoft's terms or on our own. The correct ethical choice seems clear to me.
- Benjamin Mako Hill
In fact, excessive copyright protection, like a virus, seems to sicken innovation in every field it touches. Indeed, the industries currently trying to survive the digital upheaval by holding onto strict copyright enforcement laws are the ones that have been least innovative in coming up with new business models. Copyright is making them blind to the present and fatally uncreative about the future.
- David Weinberger
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Physics is the universe's operating system.
- Steven R. Garman
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
- Niels Bohr
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
No tengo ningún talento especial. Lo que soy es apasionadamente curioso.
- Albert Einstein
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
- Isaac Asimov
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
- Marvin Minsky
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
Technology happens
- Andrew Grove
Si las civilizaciones tienden a destruirse poco después de alcanzar la fase tecnológica, quizás no haya nadie con quien podamos platicar aparte de nosotros mismos, y esto no lo hacemos de modo muy brillante.
- Carl Sagan
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
- Bruce Ediger
Engineering without management is art.
- Jeff Johnson
Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: Nobody notices when things go right.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
- Richard Cook
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
- Janet Reno
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that 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
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Peter Steiner
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
- Andrew Tanenbaum
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
- Steve Wozniak
I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.
- Larry DeLuca
The computer is no better than its program.
- Elting Elmore Morison
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
- Mitch Radcliffe
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov
La iteración es de humanos, la recursividad es de dioses.
- Begoña Albizuri
MS is not the answer. MS is the question. NO is the answer!
- Erik Naggum
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
- Dennis Ritchie
A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience.
- Larry Wall
How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it.
- Linus Torvalds
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
- Linus Torvalds
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
- Dennis Ritchie
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
- Edsger Dijkstra
...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
- Robert Firth
Osborn's Law: Variables won't, constants aren't.
Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them.
Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.
Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.
The eleventh commandment was 'Thou Shalt Compute' or 'Thou Shalt Not Compute'. I forget which.
(Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982)
I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.
- Andrew Tanenbaum
(On WYSIWYG)
There are other languages that are nice for certain kinds of applications, but if I were stuck on a desert island with only one compiler I'd want a C compiler.
- Brian Kernighan
Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-)
- Larry Wall
Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
- Larry Wall
Beauty? What's that?
- Larry Wall
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++???
- Richard A. O'Keefe
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- Larry Wall
VIM has two modes. The one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF. All my base are belong to you.
I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
- Linus Torvalds
c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Brian Kernighan
Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25
- Andrew Rutherford
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
- Dick Brandon
chown -R us ./base
...and the MacOSX has gone kitchenware.
- Mark Shuttleworth
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
- Larry Wall
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
- Paul Graham
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.
- George Carrette
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent.
- Edsger Dijkstra
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
- Edsger Dijkstra
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
- Seymour Cray
Money isn't a good enough reason. It's not related enough to its essence to be the right motivation. People who come into it for the money, maybe they'll make money, but they're not going to really shake things up. It takes something else - a passion for computing is the thing it takes more than anything else - a real love of what you are doing. I would say that's true of any endeavor.
- Andy Hertzfeld
Let's call it an accidental feature.
- Larry Wall
I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then I suspect all fortran programs look like 'firsts').
- Olaf Kirch
Then I started blogging, don't ask me why. Probably due to gravity (the attraction exercised by the planets).
- Quim Gil
If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution.
- Richard Stallman
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
- Robert Heller
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
All your oil are belong to U.S.
Para castigar mi desprecio por la autoridad, el destino hizo de mí una autoridad.
- Albert Einstein
"The motivation could be correct, but the implementation will suck." That, my friend, is the definition of the USA.
- McGiraf
(Slashdot)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
Because patents --especially patents related to medical research-- can kill. They turn legitimate life-saving research into another way to make a quick buck...
- Tony Mobily
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
- Tim O'Reilly
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Being constantly scrutinized undermines our social norms; furthermore, it's creepy. Privacy isn't just about having something to hide; it's a basic right that has enormous value to democracy, liberty, and our humanity.
- Bruce Schneier
Digital communications offer the opportunity to do a much more thorough job of monitoring citizens' actions, opinions, purchases, and associations than is possible in the analog world. [...] Even worse, effortless and untraceable tapping of communications may tempt a number of governments into tracking many of their citizens' communications, even those which haven't generally tried to do so before. And there's no guarantee that liberal democracies will be immune to this temptation.
- Bruce Schneier
(Applied Cryptography)
Sanity is not statistical.
- George Orwell
(Nineteen Eighty-Four)
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths.
- Steve Wright
If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem.
- C. Durance
Reality is for those who can't face Science Fiction.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Ed Howe
The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
- Larry Wall
It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution.
I love women. I have all their albums.
- Hank Moody
(Californication)