Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler