Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely