Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous