Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis