Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer