Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks