Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
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
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis