Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis