Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis