Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis