Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous