Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis