Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law