Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie