Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis