Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
* 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
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis