Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
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
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings