Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
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
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis