Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis