Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis