Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis