Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers