Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers