Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto