Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous