Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis