Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson