Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov