Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous