Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis