Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis