Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP