Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation