Hacker Says

When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.

Anonymous

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

Alan J. Perlis

It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.

Hugh Macleod

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

Alan J. Perlis

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

Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.

Anonymous

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

Alan J. Perlis

The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute

Thom Holwerda

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

Douglas Crocford

There's more than one way to do it.

Larry Wall about Perl