Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz