Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis