Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
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
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel