Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.