Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic