Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman