Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis