Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis