Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis