Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov