Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler