So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else’s stuff away for free – then find a bigger idiot to buy the company.

[...] in the case of Web 2.0, companies go from “pre-revenue” to “post-revenue” without any revenue in between. That’s where you need a bigger idiot.

– Andrew Orlowski, on The Register

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

– Bill Gates, supposedly

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls

– Ted Grant

[...] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!)

– Chris Pine, dealing with the DRY rule

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, read on FSM

[...] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

– from a cocoa-dev email

amen!

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

– Linus Torvalds

I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I’m doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot.

– from a mail sent to Cocoa-dev

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

– Edsger Dijkstra

You know it’s Monday when you wake up and it’s Tuesday.

— Garfield