Quotes
I will say this about you humans, with enough motivation and money, you can do just about anything in a couple of hours.
- Superintelligence (2020) (found 2022-01-16)
A hyperspace drive? How dare they violate our airspace by using an engine that's only supposed to exist in theory!
- Redline (2009) (found 2022-02-18)
Something feels off when I see a picture that doesn't feature Shrek in it
- Random software engineer at Google (found 2022-09-19)
Evolution is blind and drunk. It stumbles along by trial and error and emerges with a barely adequate excuse for a being.
- The Orville, S3E3 (found 2022-09-25)
its only 13 gbs
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (found 2022-12-16)
Some of these hardware defects are fixable in software
- Random mad biologist (found 2023-01-08)
Quads fly by making so much noise that the ground runs away from them.
- Elliot Williams, Hackaday (found 2023-06-30)
Hackers are not merely a tool-using species, we’re a tool-making species
- Elliot Williams, Hackaday (found 2023-07-05)
When you hammer in a nail, there’s actually a compression wave that travels down the nail, at the speed of sound in metal, that gets transduced into the wood. Thus carpentry is a subdiscipline of applied acoustics. :)
- Elliot Williams, Hackaday (found 2023-07-08)
I’m not like this because I’m a programmer, I’m a programmer because I’m like this
- @iamdeveloper (found 2023-07-18)
In the Metaverse you can work, because that's exactly what we all want, right?
- Thrillseeker (found 2023-07-23)
You know what they say, when you’ve got a screwdriver, everything looks like a demon core
- Kilmo (found 2023-07-24)
A planet is just a random pile of cosmic garbage crunched together by its collective gravity, and our whole ecosphere is just a thin layer of scum growing on it.
- Isaac Arthur, Accessing Earth's Core (found 2023-07-26)
Like they say, developing hardware is just like software, except every time you hit “compile” it costs money and takes weeks.
- Donald Papp, Hackaday (found 2023-07-27)
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
- Nicholas Butler (found 2023-07-29)
Got a bent paperclip eh? Only hackers have bent paperclips.
- Bryantherobotman (found 2023-07-31)
*waves hands* processes are abstractions made up by <s>os devs</s> big byte to sell more computers
- The "Basics" | Putting The "You" In CPU (found 2023-08-21)
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend all my life in front of a computer. Sometimes, I go out for food.
- No Boilerplate (found 2023-09-09)
You know what they say: “Things are gonna get worse…before they get worse”
- Jace (found 2023-09-13)
fool he is to believe a computer is something he can manipulate.
coding is not something you do, but is done to you.
- drkeinmann (found 2023-09-25)
minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less
- @typhlosion@awoo.space (found 2023-10-31)
Small is negative big
- Todd from Hackaday Supercon (found 2023-11-06)
Technology is invented to
improve an edge or confront a challenge or danger, and inventors and civilizations using it might be seen, a bit poetically perhaps, as declaring war on the Universe and reality itself. Technology implies belligerence.
- Isaac Arthur, Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses (found 2023-11-22)
When you pause the print to put in the beads you have to play a game of Go with an AI to determine the polarity. If it ends up in a perfect Fibonacci spiral you win perpetual motion bingo and Morgan Freeman gives you a prize.
- Collie147 (Hackaday) (found 2024-01-02)
Writing in C is like building a mosaic out of lentils using a tweezer and glue.
- Dr Mark Tarver, The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (found 2024-01-08)
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams (found 2024-01-17)
they yearn to build, but the skyline is already full of skyscapers.
- @snoopy dot_jpg (found 2024-03-05)
There is no AI, only math
- Nuri Halperin, SCALE 21x (found 2024-03-17)
Someone forked a fork and called it a spork
- Ashok, SCALE 21x (found 2024-03-17)
Build with what you have, build with what you want.
- Gryd3 (Hackaday) (found 2024-03-26)
every man is a 3D printer
- make piece not war (Hackaday) (found 2024-04-04)
If you're going to fail, do it historically.
- The Space Race (YouTube) (found 2024-05-16)
Cybernetics is not dangerous, stupid people are dangerous.
- Cassox (found 2024-05-26)
Does Moore's law also apply to cereal?
(Context: mini cap'n crunch)
- Lepht (found 2024-05-26)
blockchain is neat in theory, but its very nature is encouraging heat death
- acegikmo31 (found 2024-06-03)
precision application of laziness is honestly a very important skill that more creative people should know about :p
- Frost Sheridan (found 2024-06-05)
Sometimes, to survive, we must become more than we were programmed to be.
- The Wild Robot (found 2024-06-14)
my new thing when people ask why i suck at coding: i’m working at a level higher than you understand
- @netcapgirl (found 2024-06-19)
if you were lazy, you'd be having fun
- @ADHDForReal (found 2024-07-03)
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- ConsistentlyPeter (Reddit) (found 2024-08-02)
If you can't rebuild it, you don't own it.
- Mixæl (DC32) (found 2024-08-10)
If it's not documented, it's not a real project.
- Mixæl (DC32) (found 2024-08-10)
The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed.
- William Gibson (found 2024-08-13)
If I have seen further — but not much further, just a few meters — it is from standing on the doorsteps of giants.
- Ben (Hackaday) (found 2024-10-16)
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein (found 2024-12-15)
Humans are disgusting
and messy and stupid. Algorithms are pure. And I can't stay mad at math.
- Korvo, Solar Opposites, S3 E8 (found 2025-02-07)
I feel so healthy, it's disgusting.
- Lulu (found 2025-02-08)
he doesn't let himself get bogged down by consistency - which is one reason he has accomplished so much
- MitchBradley (found 2025-02-26)
lipo batteries are just advanced sauce packets
- Frost Sheridan (found 2025-03-24)
"Wake up little buddy, time to exist"
- No_Watercress2602 (found 2025-03-25)
Dusk OS doesn't have users, but operators. What's the difference? Control. You use a phone, you use a coffee machine, hell you even use a car these days. But you operate a bulldozer, you operate a crane, you operate a plane.
You use Linux, you use Windows. You operate Dusk OS.
Can you operate Linux? Sure, if you're some kind of god2, in the same way that you can operate a Tesla if you're a top Tesla engineer. But you're much more likely to be able to operate a landmower than a Tesla.
When you operate a system, there is no problem that can arise that will make you powerless. Sure, you can have a hardware failure that hopelessly breaks your system, but at least you'll be able to identify that failure and know for sure that there is no software solution or workaround. That's control.
- Dusk OS (found 2025-03-28)
Biology is gross and weird. That's life!
- @LOC-Ness (YT) (found 2025-04-23)
Repeatedly pressing "ignore warning" because the design passes DRC in my heart
- Nick Poole (found 2025-05-28)
Good technology is technology that doesn’t rely on perfection.
- @CompSciFact (Twitter) (found 2025-07-27)
In order to compile someone else's code you need to have their computer
- Frost Sheridan (found 2025-09-14)
But engineers and scientists are stubborn kinds of people. When they hear "uncontrollable", all they hear is "not yet controlled".
- Real Engineering (YouTube) (found 2025-10-03)
What if laziness is a habit about thinking of the cost of things, or the effort, instead of thinking about the payoff?
- Scott Adams (YouTube) (found 2025-12-29)