Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis